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China's share of the network-infrastructure market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa rose to 31% in 2010 from 12% in 2008, according to company figures compiled by the European metalworkers 'federation.

"The European trade commissioner needs to take a very strong stance against market penetration by Chinese players," said Caroline Jacobsson of the metalworkers 'federation, after a meeting of union leaders from the three European companies last week.

Chris Bently , a San Franciscan whose real-estate holdings include an apartment building on posh Nob Hill, this year paid a team of artists and metalworkers to build a car modeled after the "Nautilus" submarine from Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," said two people familiar with the project.

MILAN—Italian auto maker Fiat SpA said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with metalworkers unions to apply a new labor contract to all its employees in its home country, completing a campaign begun more than two years ago to improve productivity.

The garden metalworkers are making decorative garden metalwork, which is all very fine, decorative metalwork that can stand weather is very good, and there were aliens and fierce steampunk dragonflies I almost wanted enough to try to talk markgritter into one even though the garden is his domain and like that.

Unemployment rates for railroad conductors, logging workers and metalworkers fell sharply — seven percentage points or more — in 2010 while jobless rates among construction laborers and roofers rose, according to new data from the Labor Department.